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First dogs ready to scan! Help kick off our first donation drive

Rupert's fund is off to a great start!

I am very pleased to announce that thanks to an initial flurry of donations, we already have been able to fund the MRI scans of two older dogs that researchers have identified as particularly valuable to this stage of the genome research.

This is an exciting achievement. Thanks so much to each one of you who pledged those first donations, and here's to many more scans enabled by Rupert's Fund!

As the word gradually gets out about the need for older dogs, others are coming forward with possible candidates as well. A low-cost scanning day is being arranged for late March, so if we can raise more funds, more dogs could be done on the day at these competitive prices. Getting the dogs done on a low-cost day enables your donations to go much further. Let's aim to get a couple of more added on the day.

So: please consider any size donation from 10 pounds up, or get to work on whatever fundraising project you might have in mind -- selling some things on eBay, a small event, anything at all. Small donations quickly add up and enable us to fund another dog, so please don't feel you need to make a large donation to be a part of this CavalierTalk fundraising effort.

Will Oliver's scan be any use - he has a small syrinx but very few symptoms (and those are due more to his CM than his SM, I think). I'm hoping to get him scanned again this year (finances permitting!) just to see what's happening - he's 9 in june, and I could send his results to whoever could use them. Or would we be eligible for the Rupert session in March?

Kate: the best thing would be to email Penny and give some background and pedigree info for Oliver. All scans are useful but some are a higher priority than others given the needs of the researchers, so the decision is up to them. We can part-fund some scans too if owners can cover some of the cost. But I don't have anything to do with selecting dogs and deciding which to help fund so can't give an answer either way -- but I know Penny would welcome further information .

I'd also like to see if either of my old ladies would be useful to the researchers too. Could you let us have Penny's email address, Karlin - or PM me with it if it's not possible to put it up in the public domain?